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How and when to remove children from their homes? A federal lawsuit raises thorny questions
"A former Massachusetts family is hoping that a lawsuit will set a precedent for state child welfare agencies that want to remove children from their homes. Sarah Perkins says when she lived in Waltham Massachusetts last year, she took her three month old to a hospital emergency room for a high fever. She says when x-rays were done, doctors found a rib fracture and days later. We heard a knock at the door and it was armed police officers with several people from the department of children and families there to take our kids. Perkins says her son likely sustained the injury weeks earlier when her mother removed the baby from a car seat, he slipped and her mom caught him by grabbing one of his arms, still Perkins says it took her and her partner three months in about $50,000 in attorney's fees to have parental custody fully restored. Perkins and her partner are plaintiffs and a lawsuit alleging constitutional violations, including deprivation of parental rights without due process. I'm Donna water
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The day has arrived for Elizabeth Holmes to report to a Texas prison
"The disgraced CEO of health technology company theranos begins her stint in a federal prison today. Elizabeth Holmes is scheduled to begin her 11 year federal sentence at a women's prison camp in Bryan, Texas, Holmes was sentenced in November for overseeing a blood testing hoax that claimed theranos technology could quickly scan for diseases and other problems with just a few drops of blood taken with a finger prick. She'll be leaving behind two young children, a son born in July 2021, a few weeks before the start of her trial, and a three month old daughter who was conceived after a jury found her guilty on four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy in January 2022, investor and fellow theranos executive ramesh sunny balwani was convicted of 12 felony counts of fraud and conspiracy, and already has started serving his nearly 13 year sentence in a Southern California prison. I'm Donna water
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Indiana doctor reprimanded for talking publicly about Ohio 10-year-old's abortion
"An Indianapolis doctor is being reprimanded for talking publicly about a ten year old rape victims abortion. The Indiana medical licensing board has voted that doctor Caitlin Bernard violated patient privacy laws when she told a newspaper reporter about a ten year old Ohio girl who came to neighboring Indiana to get an abortion after Ohio's ban on abortions after 6 weeks of pregnancy went into effect some news outlets and Republican politicians had suggested that Bernard fabricated the story, following the overturning of roe V wade until at 27 year old man was charged with rape in Columbus, Ohio, the licensing board has fine Bernard $3000, but turned down a request from Indiana's Republican attorney general to suspend her medical license. The doctor has consistently defended her actions, and says she never identified the child. I'm Donna water
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California's epic melting snowpack means cold, deadly torrents ahead of Memorial Day weekend
"California safety officials are warning that some of the states rivers could be deadly this Memorial Day weekend. Safety officials say California rivers fed by the mass of Sierra Nevada snow pack over the winter have been turned into deadly torrents, at least 7 people have died or gone missing this spring, Justin Sylvia of the Sacramento fire department. This year we're seeing higher water. Faster water and colder water. And Sylvia says some people are taking unnecessary risks. We're seeing a lot of people not wearing life jackets. That's our big message this year is put a life jacket on. With this higher water, you can see snags out there. There's more of that from the surface that you can not see. Sylvia says Sacramento has already had 20 water rescues this year, nearly as many as all of 2022. I'm Donna water
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Concern about Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano changes with the wind
"Mexico's volcano known as el popo has been belching for days, but not everyone is worried about it. Zero Diana Alba sells flowers in the town of ameka mega. She says the only time she's worried about ill popo is when it's quiet, the nearly 17,800 foot mountain 45 miles southeast of Mexico City has been dusting towns and crops and are super fine ash, Mexico's national center for prevention of disasters says small domes of lava forming inside the volcano's crater are being destroyed by explosions and those explosions are expected to continue over the coming weeks, no evacuations have been ordered, but authorities have been driving evacuation routes, preparing some shelters and doing simulation drills. I'm Donna water
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Why do so many Black women die in pregnancy? For one thing, doctors don't take them seriously
"Black women in the U.S. are nearly three times more likely to die during pregnancy or delivery than any other race, and sometimes it's because of racial bias. Angelica and Anthony alliance are sisters from Birmingham, Alabama, and they both had traumatic pregnancies, Angelica became pregnant in 2019 at her son was due the following January, Angelica, who worked at the university of Alabama at Birmingham, says she experienced severe pain during her pregnancy and in October checked into the hospital affiliated with the university. She says she was treated for constipation but her pain persisted. I got in the bed, I felt this strong pain from vaginal area all the way up to my chest. I screamed. That was literally the beginning of literally them constantly leaving me in pain. Angelica says her pleas for help were shrugged off even after vomiting bile, and she was repeatedly sent home from the hospital because doctors and nurses claimed she was experiencing normal contractions. She says she wasn't taken seriously until a searing pain shot through her body and her baby's heart rate plummeted she was rushed into delivery two months before her due date, Angelica says she was on life support for three days and almost didn't make it. It's scary knowing that I could have died, you know? My mom, my sister, my ex-husband, would have to be, you know, taking care of my son and I wouldn't be. And even in my records, I think they have it down that I have PTSD with that hospital. Angelica lions experience is a reflection of the medical racism bias and inattentive care that many black Americans endure. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that black women have the highest maternal mortality rate in the U.S. 69.9 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2021. That's almost three times the rate for white women and black babies are more likely to die and be born prematurely, setting the stage for health issues that could follow them through their lives, black Americans health issues have long been ascribed to genetics or behavior when actuality and array of circumstances were linked to racism, restrictions on where people could live and a historical lack of access to care, Angelica's sister and Sonia says when it came time for her to have her baby where she developed complications after two previous miscarriages, her doctor referred her to the same hospital where Angelica almost died. My heart kind of dropped when you said because I didn't want to go to that hospital. From which she had already gone through, I was traumatized. Alabama has a dark history of medical racism, in the 1800s, J Marion Sims, known as the father of gynecology, performed surgical experiments on enslaved black women. He did not use anesthesia. There's a statue of Sims outside the Alabama state capitol. I'm Donna water
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Man who fatally choked another NYC subway rider to surrender on manslaughter charge
"A Marine Corps of veteran who fatally choked a man with mental illness on the New York City subway is expected to turn himself into authorities today. Daniel penny is charged with second degree manslaughter in the death of 30 year old Jordan Neely and onlooker says an agitated Neely had been screaming and begging for money aboard a train on May 1st, but had not gotten physical with any one, video shows penny on the ground placing Neely in a chokehold, Manhattan prosecutors announced Thursday that they would bring a criminal charge against penny, whose attorneys said acted in self defense, nearly performed on the subway as Michael Jackson, and friends say he had been dealing with homelessness and mental illness in recent years. I am Donna water